i dont mean to be spiritual or philosophical, but really, why are we living? is there a purpose? then, why do we die? instead of relating this to theology or religion, can someone come with a creative way to answer this?
2006-07-27 17:49:54 · 12 answers · asked by streetsofkerala 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I'll tell you why I live and I'll let you decide. I live because I have hope. I have hope that tomorrow will be sunny, I will find the love of my life, I will accomplish all my goals, and I hope for the future. We live because we learn and we learn because we have hope.
2006-07-27 17:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by solitas777 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What a good question. It really made me think alot. I think that we're living for a purpose. If we didn't, why doesn't everyone just commit suicide right now? I mean, I think that everyone in this world was born to help the ones who were not yet born come into a good world. I think life is just a gift that our minds get to enjoy while it lasts. If one doesn't find a reason for life, I think that existing wouldn't really have a point. I apologize for being religious, but I think that all of our moralities are there because God told them to be there. Why shouldn't I kill someone right now? Try to answer that without coming up with another question for yourself.
2006-07-28 00:56:43 · answer #2 · answered by tralala3345 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of us are living because our parents forgot or didn't care to use a condom or other kind of protection. After that, we are usually indoctrinated with a purpose by our parents or other authority figures so they can perpetuate their own ideas. Most of us then rebel against that indoctrination sometime in adolecsence or early adulthoodd and try to find a purpose for ourselves. Most people just find a new doctrine, some people make their own and some become truly lost and will probably revert back to whatever they have been taught.
So once we find something to beleive in, we usually live trying to prove it to be true or endorsing it for other people. Then, we have children, try to indoctrinate them and the cycle repeats. So in the end, I guess we are all living to answer the very question you are asking.
2006-07-28 01:03:21 · answer #3 · answered by D.A. S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could come up with a creative way or I could tell the truth. God created us in His image because it is part of a divine plan which we do not totally understand. He wants us to love and worship Him. He wants us to have an abundant life. We die because of Adam and Eve who were tempted by the devil, read Genesis. in the Bible. We can go to Heaven when we die if we live for God and accept His forgiveness for our sins, and we all do have sins.
2006-07-28 00:56:49 · answer #4 · answered by winkcat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's one reason why I believe in God. I've thought the same thing before without bringing spiritual or philosophical views into it. Interesting question.
2006-07-28 00:53:30 · answer #5 · answered by some person 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'We are living for' about 80 years.
Of course we're living because we were created by parents/God etc. So we didn't choose to live though we do choose to keep living.
As to THE PURPOSE, that's getting religious. As for MY PURPOSE or YOUR PURPOSE or WILLIAM HUNG's purpose, that it for each of us to define for ourselves. My purpose may seem pointless to you and yours to me, but so long as i have a PURPOSE thats good enough pour moi.
If you're religious, then there's GODS PURPOSE, which is different than GODS PORPOISE. Faint comfort that we have to die to see the big picture and how we fit in. Hopefully my PURPOSE was not to contract 62 kinds of VD and die a lingering painful death. I'd rather play with the porpoises.
Believing that we have a purpose in an act of faith that becomes less fashionable in our fast-food, cable-TV, plastic surgery, bigger house, faster car, materialistic lives. Come to think of it, a life filled with trinkets and gadgets just makes it seem less purposeful.
Of course living itself simply seems the best option. Death is rarely attractive in itself, since it's usually painful and we don't much seek pain.
As to why we die, there's that killing thing that happens a lot. And immortality is a pretty scary thought. Having to listen to my Dad's stories repeated for the next 1,000,000,000,000,000^10 years would be a bit tedious.
Or trying to remember the names of my 3,453,573,356 great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandkids (let alone shopping for the birthday presents).
Besides, what fun would it be if your enemies never took the big dirt nap?
if you're asking what we're living for, that means that it is not obvious what You're living for. You're seeking your own purpose. You won't find it in stuff, that's for sure. Often its not what you get, but what you give that is most satisfying in life.,,making it seem purposeful.
& popsicles. They're really nifty.
2006-07-29 00:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by dennis b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all have a purpose in life whether your religious or not. You were born for a reason.
2006-07-28 00:55:40 · answer #7 · answered by johnathen777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People live to die. Those are the only two true things on earth...LIFE and DEATH
2006-07-28 00:53:56 · answer #8 · answered by playdoh1986 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live for sex, money, good food, more sex, money, sunshine, nice cars, and a great round of golf. Yep, that's it in a nut shell!
2006-07-28 00:54:47 · answer #9 · answered by Chandru M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we were created to live for God but God gave us the choise if we want to do so or not, most people choose not to or they have never even learned about this choise or they deside not to believe in it. so to give you my flat answer i believe we are supposed to live for God.
2006-07-28 00:58:28 · answer #10 · answered by sweetsurrender 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋